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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1887-08-18

C." NEW GOODS large invoice
Of Stationery just received at OSLER'S
is selling OFF at fair prices, good goods
always sell. auglltf
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1887-08-18
NJ. F. Policy.

New STOCK OF CoAL,-We are receiving
our first shipments of coal Red Ash and
White Ash, all sizes. There will probably
be an advance in prices next month and it
would be safer to lay in your winter coal
this month. Our prices will be as low as
any other dealer this we guarantee.
aug1Stf Stocksdale Il Bussard.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1887-08-18
Business Locals.

cy" If you want an icc.cold watermelon,
or cantcloupc, come my way ] keep doz-
en- or more of them constantly in my rcfrig
orator and you can always find them IN
prime order. 1t is the business hit of the
season and sells melons and cantcoupcs
"hand over fist"
n,1r1SAA Al Z Dollnu
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1887-08-18
additional Locals.

We regret to record that Mr.. Isv0c llvdcr
is living seriously i'll at his residence IN this
place. Chronicle. ... .- b. ..at
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-07-23
CHAPTER XIV.
A ROUGH JOURNEY.

The four grays were fresh horses, tn good
condition and with light load behind them,
SO, Notwithstanding the bad condition of the
tracks which they call roads in South Africa,
John made good progress.
BY IL o'clock that day he had reached
Standerton, a little town upon the Vaal, not
far from which he was destined, had he but
known it, to meet with sufficiently striking
experience. Here he obtained confirmation
of the Bronker's Spruit disaster, and listened
with set face and blazing eyes to the tale of
treachery and wholesale massacre which was,
as he said, without q parallel in the annals Of
civilized war.
At Standerton John was again warned
that it would be impossible for him to make
his way through the Beers at Heidelberg, a
town about sixty miles from Pretoria, where
the Triumvirate. Kruger, Pretorius and
Joubert, had proclaimed the republic. But
he answered as before, that he must go on
till he was stopped, and, inspanning his
horses, set forward again, q little comforted
by the news that the bishop Of Pretoria, who
was hurrying up to rejoin his family, had
passed through o few hours before, also IN
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-07-23

For little while memory may support Us,
but memory grows faint. On every side Is
the thick, cherries pail and the stiffness
through which no sotind comes We are
alone, quite alone, cut off from the fellow
ship of the day. unseeing and unseen. More
especially is this so when our dungeon Is of
our own making, and we ourselves have shot
its bolts There Is natural night that comes
to all, and in its unwavering course swallows
every hope and fear, forever and forever. To
this we can more easily resign ourselves, for
we recognize the universal lot and bow our
selves beneath the all effacing hand The
earth does not pine when the daylight passes
from its peaks; it only sleeps
But jess had buried herself, and she knew
IT, There was no absolute need for her to
have resigned her affection to her sister; she
had done SO Of her own will, and at times she
naturally enough regretted 1t. Self denial Is
stern faced angel. If only we hold him fast
and w-estle with him long enough he win
speak us soft words of happy sound, just as,
If we wait long enough in the darkness of the
night. stars will come to share our loneliness.
Still this is one of those things that time hides
from us and only reveals at his own pleasure;
and so far as Jess was concerned, his pleasure
was not yet. Outwardly, however, she
sion which was eating at her heart She was
pale and silent, it is true, but then she had al
ways been remarkable for her pallor and
silence Only she gave up her singing.
And SO the weeks went on, drearily enough
for the poor girl, who was doing what other
people did-eating and drinking, riding and
going to parties like the rest of the Pretoria'
world, till at last she began to think that she
had better he going home again, lest she
should wear out her welcome. And yet she
dreaded to do SO, mindful Of her daily prayer
to he delivered from temptation. AS to what
was going on at Mooifontein she was in al
most complete ignorance. Bessie wrote to
her, of course, and SO did her uncle once or
twice, but they did not tell her much Of what
she wanted to know. Bessie's letters were, it
is t.uc, full of illusions of what Capt. Mel
was doing, hut she did not go beyond that.
Her reticence, however, told her observant
sister more than her words Why was she SO
reticent! No doubt because things still hung
in the balance. And then she would think of
what it all meant for her, and now and again
give way to an outburst of passionate jeal-
ousy, which would have been painful enough
to witness if anybody could have been there
to see it.
And so the time went on toward Christmas,
for jess, having been warmly pressed to do
so, had settled to stay over Christmas and re-
turn to the farm with the new year. There
had been a great deal of talk in the town
about the Beers, but she was too much preoc-
cupied with her own affairs to pay much at
tention to it. Nor, indeed, was the public
mind greatly moved; they were SO much &C
customed to Beer scares at Pretoria, and hith-
erto they had invariably ended in smoke. And
fro BE oNTIHUE
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-07-23

A bridge across the Moave at Daggett is
to be built.
A female real estate agent is one Of Po.
mona's latest additions.
Two men were killed by an explosion in a
quarry near Socorre, N. NJ, Thursday.
Mrs. !. N. Page committed suicide at San
Bernardino yesterday while temporarily in
sane.
Napa county farmers raised fine crop of
corn and got it off the land in time for the
wheat crop this year.
The discussion Of the extension Of the
Carson and Colorado Railroad to Southern
California is again reviving.
Santa Clara county has awarded the con-
s'ruction Of two bridges. one ocross the Los
Gatos and the other across the Guadalupe,
both to cost $40. 600.
Thousands OF rabbits are dying of a dis
ease which has broken out among them
along the Lakeside Ditch and at the sink OF
Cross creek, Tulare county.
indians are being engaged by the Seattle
Hopgrowers' Association to pick the season $
hops. Picking will begin in about a month
and 1000 Indians will be employed.
There is complaint at Los Angeles that
the Assessor has Disseminated in his assess.
ments in favor Of large land holders, and
the small owners have to suffer in conse.
quence
w. W Williams. convicted Of RAPE at Gold
Hill. died at the state Prison at one o'clock
Wednesday morning, and was buried in the
afternoon. the Chaplain, Rev Geo. X. Davis,
officiating.
About seventy Topoiobampo coIonists
have arrived at Guaymas by the steamer
Atlanta in destitute condition. The great.
er part Of them will 60 by the Newben to
San Francisco.
The body OF Mrs. Acosta was exhumed at
Stockton Thursday for the purpose of inves
tigating traces Of poisoning, which it is
charged was administered by man called
"Political Dick
People in California do not meet each
other with the old stereotyped shows your
health?" hut a fellow comes at you like
this: "Fine morning, nice climate, how S
your lots this morning1"
Great efforts are heing made to secure the
building of Washington and Idaho rail,
road TO connect the Coeur d'Alene mines
with the Oregon Railway and Navigation
Company's road at Pennington, Or.
The grain crop in Washington Territory
and Eastern Oregon is said to he the largest
and best in the history Of the country and
every field Of fall and spring wheat, barley
and oats will yield full crop, something
never known before.
J. S. Tolles last Spring sowed quarter o
an acre Of wheat on his ranch north Of Reno
and let it take its chance without arti6cia
irrigation. The result is so satisfactory tha
he will next season sow eighty acres. Fal
wheat would doubtless do better than tha
sown in the spring.
There is every probability of legal 6Ph
over the possession ofthe San Joaquin ran
cho, Los Angeles county. The dispute il
over the non recognition of the highest BIZ
by the auctioneer, who claims the time fxec
in which the bidding should end had ex
pired before the highest offer was made.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-07-23
COAST ITEMS.

fro BE oNTINUE
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-07-23
CHAPTER XVI.
PRETORIA.

jess did not have very happy time of it
at Pretoria previous to the outbreak of hos
.tilities. Most people who have made great
moral effort, and after q severe mental strug-
gle entered on the drear path of self sacrifice,
have experienced the reaction that will fol-
low as certainly as the night follows the day
1t is one thing to renounee the light, to stand
in the full glow of the setting beams Of our
imperial joy and chant out our farewell, and
quite another 20 live alone in the darkness.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-07-23

ayes, yes," said the first man, "there will
soon be plenty of wounded and dying there.
They vii. all be like the rooibaajes at
Bonker's Spruit Lord, what a sight that
was! But they will get the bishop, SO they
won't want you. You can stop and look
after our wounded, If the roobaatjes manage
to hit any of u.s." And he beckoned to him
to come out of the cart"
( "Hullor said the other man. "here is q bag
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-07-23

1kHWW F,o be made, Out this out and return
mHMEv0us us and we viii send You free
MAWU " i anething OF great value and i'm.
staVbu = 3 potsnce to you. that will start Won
mops m 9sslSsss n1sssv which n., win hrips you in
.ning else in this world Anyone csn A. thn sny
shina aHE nve at home Either ser; ali sees. some.
We viii s;.r sra, Su:' coins money for all
sa VnS OF TIE genuine important cAsnees Of - lie
Sii, ~, sose who are ambitious ana enterpriss'
& CO nos delay: Grand outht free. Address Txus
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-02
NEWS or THE MoRNINa

EAsrERE-John T. Isle, clerk of the
First National Bank of Baltimore, has alb
seconded ... The New York merchants are
opposed to raising the price of Turkish
prunes. The Navy Department has
nearly completed the drawing up of the
contract for the construction of a dynamite
steel cruiser 49,. Morrow's anti Chinese bill
will not be called up this session. Con-
gresham Reagan has been elected United
States Senator in Texas. ..... President CleVe-
land mas accepted the resignation of Gov
ernor Pierce, OF Dakota Territory
strike among the freight handlers is taking
lager dimensions. Assistant Secretary
Fairchild will succeed Secretary Manning
The Southern Telegraph was sold at
public auction at Richmond. Va, yester-
Cav. Silver in New York, 1929.
FoREIGY.-There was panic on the
Paris Bourse yesterday. .....The Canadians
are getting up war excitement against an
imaginary foe... Michael Davitt had an
enthusiastic reception on his arrival at
Cork Silver in London, 49d.
PACIFIC CoAsr.-St. James Mission, Van
couver, w. T.. has brought an action TO
recover possession of the military reserva-
ton at that place.....A San Francisco cap
italist is putting up tenement cottages at
Fresno. The District Viticultural Con-
vention is in session at San Francisco.
The cattlemen of Pima county, A. t., are
favoring a new quarantine law against
diseased CATTLE. Rain fell in different
portions of the State yesterday ......A terrific
wind-storm is raging at Truckee... Serious
charges have been preferred against the
Chief Engineer of the San Jose Fire De-
Dartment
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-02
Immigratton Points.

The Southern Pacific Company has in
structed its agent at Biggs to double the
price of lots at that place. This is straw
which points Enthusiastically to the tide of
coming events. Land from. Biggs up
Feather river will certainly advance very
rapidly in price as the boom settles in that
locality.-OroviHe Mercury
The boom seems to have struck Oroville
in dead earnest One block offered for $500
last Saturday sold Tuesday for $500, and
its owner was offered 500 for it yesterday.
Who says Butte county land is worth moth
ing Chico Chronicle.
10 Sligar and Charles Bennett brought to
this office, yesterday, January 2Sth, fine
bunch of headed oats that were gathered at
Benefits place, near the depot. How is
that for climate and soil ?-Oropite Mercury.
A man came in town from the red lands
the other day and had good deal of val
liable dirt sticking to his boots. He hadn't
been IN town ten minutes before one of our
new real estate spectators offered to bond
his boots for s. so apiece.-0rorRie Her
citrg.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-02

an interruption Of the freedom Of con-
tracts. DR.. Perry, who is un9uestionably
the clearest recent writer upon the subject,
to be read with profit upon these points
advances sarcastic argument that is
grimly humorous where lie points out that
Governments passing usury laws never
bind themselves by the same rule. No
organic law declares that Government may
not, in pinch, pay what it pleases for
money. The United States in 1860 itself
offered II per cent. for loans. If it was
bad for the citizen to make and pay such
a bid, why not for the Government.
But usury laws are ineffective inva-
riably-their enforcement is only spas
modic, and never even and equal as laws
should be. II the Government would aid
borrowers that they may borrow more
easily, why not aid lenders that they may
be conserved also in their business? Be-
cause it does not is one of the chief rea-
sons of the inefectiyeness of such enact
ments. In fact to prohibit loans at mar
ket rates which fiuctuate cripples the loan
market and impairs credit. 1t was so found
to be the effect in Rhode Island and Connec-
ticut, both of which abandoned the expert
ment.
Bentham did no greater public service
than by showing the unwisdom of usury
laws, and Adam Smith, who in his
Wealth of Nations" favored them, re-
tracted and acknowledged his error. De
Lavaleye was happy in the statement that
borrowers abound when the spirit of enter
prise is developed, and that high rate of
interest, instead Of representing stringency
may represent activity of business; enter
prise pays money its wages, not necessarily
because money is deficient, but because in
vestment, production, energy, are slim
ulated to make large gains. This writer
quotes Aristotles famous epigram: In
terest is money born of money, and of all
dCluISltlOliS uiOoI uIilidtuTdl, Dub points
out that the ancients mistook the nature
of capital, for they considered it exclu-
sively coins, which are barren" In the
better light of political science of this
day we know that money is but an agent,
means, tool for effecting exchanges and
uses. As Bentham said, "One gold daric
cannot give birth to another, but with this
piece of money can buy ram and a
sheep, which will yield me lambs, whence
whole flock may be born"
Interest forbidden induces boarding, and
new capital is thus prohibited, and hence
usury laws injure more those whom they
seek to protect, for they increase the risk
of lending, and thus absolutely raise the
rate of interest, in what we have termed
the form of insurance. Enactments,
therefore, to restore usury laws of the
character. indicated would have been for
California really a step backward into a
policy that has been almost everywhere else
abandoned.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-02
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
Suit to Gain Possession OF the Vancouver
Military Reservation.


VANCOUVER, February 1st.-St. James
Mission has filed suit in equity against
General Gibbon, Colonel T. Ii. Anderson
and Lieutenant Yeastman, QGartermsster,
commanding the Department of the Column
bia and Vancouver Barracks, to establish
the title of the Mission to $50 acres over
tapping on the original Government sur
vey by the Mission, and that is claimed as
military reservation. The Mission
claims all this land under the Act of Con-
gress granting lands to religious societies
then occupying the ground as missionary
stations in Oregon. The War Department
claims this land as a military reservation,
set apart long subsequent to the passage of
said Act of Congress as military reserva-
ton. The Mission claims that the title was
confirmed by said Act, and it then became
the owner of this property, which could
not subsequently be taken for a mill
tary reservation by the United States,
except by appropriation or condemnation
according 70 law. The Land Department
has refused to issue to the Mission patent
for said 430 acres, consequently the Mis-
sion has no relief, except in equity. The
object of this complaint is to enjoin the
military authorities from dispossessing the
Mission of a portion of the ground which
it has occupied nearly forty years The
military has opened road. cut down an
orchard and ornamental trees, tearing
down fences and Enclosures. and removed
buildings belonging to the Mission from
the ground so long occupied by IT, The
Mission alleges that the refusal to issue q
patent by the Government Is based upon a
miscons'ruction Of the law. the facts being
all admitted az to what was meant in
the Act of Congress by the term "occu-
pied rs a missionary station among
the Indians in 1852" Under the advice
of the Attorney General it is held that a
mission station is only entitled to so much
land as was actually built upon, inclosed,
cultivated, fenced, blazed or saked out, or
otherwise segregated from the public do
main by visible boundary lines, at the time
of the passage of said Act "that the title
to the land, rot exceeding $40 acres, now
occupied as missionary stations among the
Indian tribes in said Territory, together
with the Improvements thereon, be con-
firmed and established in the several reiig-
ious societies 10 which said missionary In
dams respectively belong" The mission
claims the term occupied included Go
acres, provided there was so much sur
rounding the missionary station on unap-
propriated public land, or if not so much
as 6 10 acres, then any quantity upon which
the mission was located which was not
claimed adversely, but was uDappropriated
pubic land at the date of the passage of
said law. Judge Hoyt, Of this district, has
granted temporary restraining order, and
the parties are required! to appear before his
Honor at Olympia Saturday next, to argue
and submit the question as 10 q perpetual
injunction.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-02

TOMORROW the first OF the new excur-
sion trains from Los Angeles to the north
and central section will leave that city.
1t ought to mark the Inauguration of new
impulse in the development of Central
and Northern California. Sacramento
and Northern California should have
agents upon each of these new cheap
trains-which will mainly be occupied by
Eastern people-to turn just as many of
them as possible this way. The excur-
sionists viii be strangers for most part, and
not with any definite point of destination
in view. To San Francisco the most of
them viii drift, and they will see only the
country adjacent to the metropolis, unless
we exert ourselves to bring them into the
Sacramento valley. This should be done.
The trains ought to be rich in immigra-
ton literature expository of all the north
and central section, and pointing out the
routes of travel and the natural beauties
and advantages of the central and northern
counties
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-02
CoMMENpABLE ACTION.

The Senate has very properly, and with
dignihed unanimity, resolved to enter into
an investigation of recent scurrilous and
unwarranted assault upon the presiding
officer of that body by an interior paper.
The only danger in touching the
matter is in giving the sheet re-
ferred to some prominence before the
public. But this is more than counter
balanced by the righteous desire to lay by
the heels the wretch who could so far for
get the common decencies of life as to
mail the paper containing the vulgar ema-
nation Of gangrened prejudice and mis-
taken enterprise, to the wife of Governor
Waterman. That discovery ought to be
made, as it will very likely give a
clue to the motive for the mean
assault. Criticism of public officials is
one thing, scurrility is another Governor
Waterman was chosen by the people of
California to be their Lieutenant-Gov
ernor he is their deliberate choice; they
chose wisely and well, and he does them
honor by his manliness. If he is not
called as he was by the people from the
hard work of toiling man-as yet a
skilled parliamentarian, it is the peoples
choice that puts him in the chair, and
what he at present may lack in technical
~ ot;o,, oo,oarp;,,o, tb n r,1,, sc JL..
and the ethics OF parliamentary procedure,
is hundred fold compensated by the
sterling integrity Of the man, his perfect
honesty of purpose, the care that is con-
stantly his to do even-handed justice, and
the diligence with which he applies HIM
self to his duties. Better the man whose
conceptions of fair play are clear and I'M
miStakable, and whose solid honesty and
frmness in the discharge Of duty excite
admiration and respect, than the accom-
plished parliamentarian who lacks any of
these qualities. That Gov. Waterman, fresh
from pillow and mine, is not a parliamentary
lawyer, gives no warrant for the vicious
assault referred to. No self-respecting
journal you'd be guilty of it. The Senate
has acted properly in defending the
dignity of its chief officer, and in rebuking
the sensational journalism that mistakes
scurrility for courage, and filth for enter
prise. 1t has acted with becoming dignity
in protesting against the influence that
makes the possession of few types and q
press the excuse for abuse. All men Of
fair mind and regard for the common
proprieties of life, will entertain the hope
that the Senate may unearth the coward
who thrust the printed offense into the
household of Governor Waterman.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-02
(2,07l.)
MAIL LETTINGS.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
PoSroFFICE DEPARTMENT,

PoSToFFICE DEPARTMENT,
WASHINGTON ID. C), January "a, 1887.
DROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED AT THE
Contract Office of this Department until H.
of APRIL ?, 1857, for carrying the mails of
the United States upon the routes, and accord
ing to the schedule of arrivals and departures
specified by the Department, in the State of
California, from JULY l, 1887, to JUNE 50,
1890 Lists of routes with schedules of arrivals
and departures, instructions to bidders, with
forms for contracts and bonds, and all other
necessary information will be furnished upon
application to the Second Assistant Postmaster
General. WILLIAM F. Villas,
fe2-6WW Postmaster General
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-02

THE great strike at the East has ad-
vanced to the dynamite stage, and we may
now expect to hear of shattered ships,
wrecked wharves and coal houses going
skyward BY which the strikers will
again succeed in repelling even such little
sympathy as they may have had from
portion of the public. A more senseless,
useless and wicked strike has not been
known than that now in progress, for it is
no. furnishing capital and employer
tenth as much as the tens Of thousands of
poor people who are thrown out of en-
ployment. but who hsye taken no part in
the strike.